Helen Thomas

Romanticism and Slave Narratives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662345
• ISBN-10: 0521662346
• Artikelnr.: 22272003

Autorenporträt

Helen Thomas has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years in both radio and print, and is an experienced presenter and producer.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The English slave trade and abolitionism
2. Radical dissent and spiritual autobiography: Joanna Southcott, John Newton and William Cowper
3. Romanticism and abolitionism: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
4. Cross-cultural contact: John Stedman, Thomas Jefferson and the slaves
5. The diasporic identity: language and the paradigms of liberation
6. The early slave narratives: Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant and Ottobah Gronniosaw
7. Phyllis Wheatley: poems and letters
8. Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
9. Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse.